The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-05-07

! sure to be on the winning side. When
her right hand was tired she playct
| with the left.
Olc unfortunate day, however. kittle
tripped on Il hidden clo1uet hoop, and
down she came. breaking her right
arm, so that for some days there wa
no playing at all. 1t was only aftel
many charges to be very careful that
she vas allowed to go to the play
ground with her arm laid away in a
plastcr-of- Paris cradle and swung in
sling, which greatly interested the
children. At first Kittie watched them
playing very contentedly, but after 4
time her interest was much
more lively. When Jack Dreamer
made a good catch she danced up and
down with delight, and finally, n flying
tennis bali seeking her out. she struck
out her hand and caught it neatly.
After that, the first thing ever Kittic
knew she was bounding about and in
the thick Of the game.
When Jack Dreamer went home that
night. with rosy face, over which rills
of pe%rspiration had left their mark,
and told how their side had beat, and
it was all because of Kittic and of him
self. Jack Dreamer, and that kittie
played with her left arm. for her right
ann was in u sling, but he'd rather
have her on his side at tennis than any
two-armcd boy, jacks father said that
somebody had told him that little Kit
tic Verify was ambideXtcr.
Jack was very much impressed with
this long word, and as soon as he had
eaten his supper he ran totell the boys
that he knew how it was that Kittie
could play SC well-that his father said
Kittie was ambidcxtcr, and his father
knew.
There was q difference of opinion
among the boys as to the meaning of
ambidexter, or just how it worked.
One Of the boys thought it was some
sort Of fairy gift Kittic had received in
her cradle. But as this boy was known
to be still reading fairy stories, nobody
listened to him. The general impress
sion, after some discussion. was that it
was in some way connected with the
broken mm-nothing catching Q, you
know, but a feature of the malady, and
it was agreed it had better not be spok-
en- about.
This was very well, and under the
circumstance very polite. but Eugcnius
Moreton, the boy who read fairy tales.
was not satisfied, SO the next time he
saw Kittic he asked:
kitty, did you wei sec a fairy? An
old woman fairy. with a big hat and a
hooked nose, and a crooked stick in her
hando"
No." said Kittle. thoughtfully; Il
do wish l could. They are, you know,
but l never sawtone."
II am ure you did, Kittie. Try and
think very hard. Never? when you
were a teenty-wcenty thing in your
cradle? Didn't one evcr bend over you
and make n ring three times around
your head with her finger, and say
strange words in a whisperP
Kittie shut her eyes very tight. II
am trying to remember, Eugenius. but
it's no use. Why do you think she
did?"
"Becansr tho boys say you are ambi.
dexter. Jack Cramcr' father told him,
and"
"Oh. Nlgcnius," whimpercd Kittic.
'ls it any thing very naughty' Arc the
boys mad at me?"
mo, Kittic; it's only very mystic
rious. You know that no person who
isn't under some spell could play GRO
quet and tennis with their left hand
and the right hand in q sling"
"Then the boys aren't mad at me,
nor afraid of me, nor nothing?" said
Kittie, treasured.
"No. indeed" said Eugeniius. stout
~. 'Thcy'd just like to have it them
next Saturday, when we play
the Newton boys"
Still, kittie had an uncomfortable
sense of being different from other
children; SO she waited until she saw
her father coming up the lawn, and
to meet him. He took her in his
arms, and she buried her little head
under his ear and whispered:
"Father, Jack Creamer's father saws
l am a~mbidexter. Now speak very
will outgrow it, won't lp I've
you say. father. that l would
outgrow other things"
''Kittic, ducky, that's Just one of the
thinks I hope you won't outgrow."
"Then 1t is not d~isagrccable. Oh,
nm so glad! But, father, what is itp 1t
is 50 funny to have something and not
know what it is."
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